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Some weeks ago I had to wipe my machine and reinstall everything from scratch, SQL Server included.

For some reason that I still don’t understand, SQL Server Management Studio installed fine, but I couldn’t install Books Online from the online help repository. Unfortunately, installing from offline is not an option with SQL Server 2014, because the installation media doesn’t include the Language Reference documentation.

However, I couldn’t get that method to work: the Help Library Manager kept firing errors as soon as I clicked the “Install from Online” link. The error message was “An exception has occurred. See the event log for details.”

Needless to say that the event log had no interesting information to add.

If you are experiencing the same issue, here is a method to install the language reference from disk without downloading the help content from the Help Library Manager: